Etiqueta: Facebook

Facebook’s Messenger Kids app has been around on the App Store for a while, and it got released in the US Play Store today. The app lets parents monitor who their kids interact with and keep track of their online activity. A Messenger Kids profile can…

Share some love on Facebook during Pride Month! Everyone at iMore loves, well, love. We also have Facebook accounts! If you're celebrating Pride Month and have a Facebook account, you've already seen most of the account tweaks you can add, like temporary profile banners. If you…

Facebook slowly has migrated onto other platforms since its launch. But a recent patent filing shows it potentially could be keeping an eye on something more significant: your webcam. CBInsights reported the patent in question would be for a system that would use a smartphone or…

Facebook announced Wednesday it is rolling out several tools to the social media site to help elected officials better connect with their constituents and to learn more about them. The “civic engagement” features are called constituent badges, constituent insights and district targeting. The features are additions…

Nearby Friends feature on Facebook allows you to find your friend location when they are nearby. You can easily use Nearby Friends feature on Facebook at your smartphone.You can easily track your all Facebook friends real time location at your Smartphone. You can also quickly meet…

Facebook has dabbled in virtual reality technology in the past for its users and they’ll soon have an easier way to find VR content. Facebook announced Wednesday the launch of Facebook 360, an app that’ll exclusively highlight VR content from other Facebook pages and users. La…

Amazon’s livestream video service, Twitch, is getting more social features with the introduction of Pulse. The new feature will let streamers post text, videos, photos and more to stay connected with their followers. Pulse on Twitch looks and functions like a combination of Facebook and Twitter.…

After a period of testing earlier in the year, Facebook recently began rolling out a new tourism feature called "City Guides" to its iOS app for a number of users (via The Next Web). Located in the Explore tab of the app -- similar to the…

As of the second quarter 2016, Facebook had over 1.71 billion active users – are you reaching the right ones? My guess, probably not. But if you’re like me, spending money on Facebook Ads is like blindly throwing darts. You may have dabbled in spending a…

We’re thrilled to announce one of our most requested features – video automation. dlvr.it now supports automatic posting of videos to your social media profiles and pages. Tap into dlvr.it to effortlessly share videos with your friends on Facebook, Refilar, and Google+. Upload your videos to…

The social media marketing landscape seems to change by the hour. Hot new social media trends emerge and disappear with astonishing speed. How does a social media marketer make sense of all the hype? It’s always good to start with the data. The actionable social media…

Snapchat parent Snap Inc.’s initial public offering Wednesday exceeded expectations. Snap priced its IPO at $17 a share, raising the company's value to $24 billion — the biggest IPO after Alibaba’s in 2014 that was valued not much higher at $25 billion and the largest U.S.…

Nokia is expected to make its global comeback Sunday after an almost three-year hiatus at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 in Barcelona. The company enters a very different smartphone market than the one it left in 2014. Windows Phone devices such as the ones from…

Facebook bought Whatsapp a few ago. The only noteworthy change made to Whatsapp since the acquisition was support for GIFs. For the most part, Facebook left Whatsapp the same as they found it until now. Facebook has long been copying features from Snapchat and including them…

Facebook is the second most popular place where people watch videos. The number one spot is held by YouTube. This is a fact Facebook is well aware of and it constantly pushes video content to users. Videos on Facebook autoplay, and as of last year you…

You’ll never believe what this Chrome extension does. It can identify clickbait on Facebook and save you from reading through a long, ad-laced list of outdated and/old/incorrect information. The extension is called This is Clickbait and it’s available in the Chrome Web Store. It does two…

Facebook advertising is just as powerful in 2017 as it’s ever been. Perhaps even more so. The sheer volume of users alone (1.71 billion as of July 2016) makes it a digital marketer’s playground. When it comes to Facebook advertising, I could spout off a laundry…

Facebook is already the biggest social network in the world, and it doesn’t look like it’s getting any smaller. According to the company’s earnings report from the fourth quarter of 2016, Facebook now boasts nearly two billion active users—and plenty of profit to go along with…

Apple has joined the Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society, and will work alongside other tech giants on artificial intelligence initiatives, the partnership announced Friday. Apple previously worked with Partnership on AI, but Friday’s announcement makes the company’s membership official, as it joined as…

Former Google and Xiaomi executive Hugo Barra is heading to Facebook to become the VP of virtual reality (VPVR). He will fill the void left by former Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, who shifted roles to focus on PC VR in December. Barra was all over the…